Blue Nowhere

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: William Dufris

From the bestselling author of The Bone Collector and The Devil’s Teardrop comes a riveting cyber thriller set in Silicon Valley.

His code name is Phate—and he infiltrates victims' digital lives with surgical precision and lures them to their deaths—making technology itself the weapon.

To stop him, authorities release former hacker Wyatt Gillette from prison, unwilling but essential, to assist detective Frank Bishop of the Cyber Crimes Unit. Gillette and Bishop form an uneasy partnership: one steeped in cutting-edge code, the other grounded in old-school detective work.

As the body count rises and paranoia spreads, the case turns into a deadly psychological game. Deaver weaves complex technical detail—TrapDoor malware, social engineering tactics, virtual stalking—into relentless suspense, never losing narrative momentum. You’ll never feel safe browsing email or logging into accounts again.

With its relentless pacing and ingenious plotting, The Blue Nowhere fuses cybercrime fiction with classic detective thriller intrigue. It’s Deaver at his most suspenseful—and most relevant—in a world where privacy is extinct and evil hides behind every keystroke.

good read

We take long trips at least once per month, and look forward to our "reads". We hadn't listened to Jeffry Deaver in at least 2 years, and were happy to find another book of his on Audible. We were not disappointed. The trip went by in a flash. Well developed characters, suspenseful and not too dark, although Deaver comes right up to the edge, and several surprises along the way.

Very good!

I really liked this book. I had to work this weekend and this helped me get through it.

The book was published in 2001 so that explains some of the tech being a little outdated, but the story is timeless.

Surprises galore

What made the experience of listening to Blue Nowhere the most enjoyable?

Jeffrey Deaver can craft a story and create characters. This book is as good as the Lincoln Rhyme series. If I’d read this in 2001. I would have found it hard to believe that hackers could penetrate all the places they did in this book. Now, we know that this is a fact of life in the 21st Century, so the book is entirely believable. It was written before the smartphone and before routers and modems were terms we all understood. I’m not a techie, so the outdated ins and outs of hacking were as new to me as these methods are old school to the techies of today. I enjoyed the characters and the suspense. The narrator was not the best I’ve heard. He had a few mannerisms I found annoying, but not so much that it detracted from the story. I bought this at a two for one sale, and thoroughly enjoyed the book.

Good But A Couple Flaws

Note that this book about super-hacking was written in 2001 so some of the tech has changed. Also, there were a lot of red herrings and a few plot twists that were pretty far out. Still I enjoyed the book, especially the main characters, Frank Bishop and Wayne Gsomebody (how quickly we forget!).

At least one of the voices used by the narrator was annoying, but the rest was fine.

So I marked 4s because it was better than average. But minor flaws kept it from being great.

Great Listen!

Just as good or better than when I read the book some years back. My favorite Deaver book. Performance was excellent.